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swizzle swag

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) Tales from the invisible republic. The new old-weird America… about 20 years ago, i worked on my first swizzle stick project. my client/pal dave crider at estrus records decided he wanted swizzle stick to go … Continue reading

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lipstick traces on sandpaper:waiting for you to make the wrong step…

The intro to this latest blog is an excerpt from an interview Art Chantry gave back 1998: Chantry:Yeah, but that’s not the same thing. That’s an old Situationist idea. There was a book produced by… I think it was Guy … Continue reading

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DIDDLERS: SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE SHUFFLE

It’s what  Griel Marcus  termed  ”the old, weird America.”; a peculiar terrain, a strange yet familiar backdrop to a common cultural history of America : the “playground of God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence men, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of … Continue reading

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WRESTLING WITH THE AESTHETIC OF VIOLENCE

Masculinity in crisis as a black or absurd comedy.  Society’s always seems to rejoice in a misplaced misplaced judgment that portrays violence as a reality principle, perhaps reflecting the influence of Quentin Tarantino. A video of a Halifax, Canada area … Continue reading

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HERESY OF THE FREE SPIRIT

“the adepts of the Free Spirit did not form a single church but rather a number of likeminded groups, each with its own messiah and each with its own particular practices, rites and articles of belief.” It is characteristic of … Continue reading

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CONFIDENCE MEN:Masquerade, Myth and Art

For the confidence man to find a comfortable home in the heart of American culture, he needed a mask. And humor has often become an intricate part of the disguise. From the Al Jolson and  Eddie Cantor in blackface which … Continue reading

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Blake & The Invisible Republic

What musicologist and culture critic Griel Marcus termed  ”the old weird America” , an invisible republic that lingers in the background and is interwoven into the fabric of everyday life. Bob Dylan and The Band’s ‘‘The Basement Tapes” was recorded, … Continue reading

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